How To Use Pink-collar In A Sentence
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a pink-collar employee
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Yes, in my classes on the sociology of gender we spend time talking about pink-collar jobs, discrimination against working mothers and the media's sexualization of young girls.
Christine Whelan: Stirring Up The Feminine Mystique For A New Generation
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In addition, poor wages not only offset women's increased access to the job market, but occupational segregation, as a result of women's access, helped to lower the status of certain jobs and create pink-collar ghettos.
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Sexual harassment is still endemic and the pink-collar ghetto is still prevalent.
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Most tend to be nurses, teachers or hold clerical and other pink-collar jobs, while many are stressed to the hilt by family and work demands.
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Over the years, women have tried everything to succeed in business: fitting in; biding their time in order to rise in an organization; taking shelter in pink-collar ghettos.
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Until recently secretarial work and nursing were very much pink-collar professions.
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Freeman explored the interconnected ‘dialectics of globalization/localization, production/consumption, and gender/class’ through the everyday lives of pink-collar informatics operators in Barbados.
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Almost half the crowd was made up of overweight women in pairs, trios, or quartets, most wearing clothing and makeup that identified them as pink-collar workers.
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I believe that most feminist policies harm the very women they should be protecting - that is, the pink-collar worker.
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Female office personnel are "pink-collar workers.
Donna Henes: Blessings of the Pink Moon
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A larger question is whether we should have policies that promote women moving into higher-paying careers (and whether those careers would remain higher-paying if women moved into them, as opposed to becoming pink-collar ghettos).
Matthew Yglesias » The Domestic Sphere
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Banished from sales, she too was mired in a pink-collar ghetto and often refused basic necessities like restrooms.
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At the start of the 1980s, the pink-collar segment of the industry represented 39 percent of the temporary workforce, with white-collar placements accounting for an additional 26 percent.
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Secretarial or low-level administrative jobs are so overwhelmingly female that they have been termed pink-collar jobs.
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Temporary employment in pink-collar occupations grew by 151 percent between 1992 and 1997, a period in which the growth rate for temp employment as a whole was 110 percent.
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While the unemployment rate among college grads (most of whom are professionals or managers) is around 5 percent, the average unemployment rate for people with only a high school degree or less (blue-collar, pink-collar, clerical) is almost 20 percent.
Robert Reich: Sarah Palin's Presidential Strategy, and the Economy She Depends On
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In fact, the pink-collar wage gap is less than 5 percent for all of these sectors, except one: dining room and cafeteria attendants/bartender helpers.
Cristen Conger: A Bartender's Guide to the Gender Wage Gap
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Nurses, teachers and women in other pink-collar fields are safe.
Having It All, Including Doubt
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Every packed lunch is one day fewer spent slaving in the pink-collar ghetto.
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The blue-collar sector posted a 173-percent increase in employment from 1992 to 1997, stronger than the growth in the pink-collar temping.
